What are your best excuses for not completing homework?  My excuse would have to be, “the cat wouldn’t let me!” Can you see why?!

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English:  We are looking at the process of writing a really effective and detailed book review.  This will be our final week of work on Krindlekrax and we will be collecting in books at the end of this week.

Maths:  We are looking at rounding decimal numbers and this will include some problem solving work (mainly looking at money or units of measure).

Write the newspaper article reporting on how Ruskin saved Lizard Street.

A newspaper template (which you can edit) can be found here:

Ms Word Newspaper Template

The PowerPoint with all of the success criteria we used in class (and extra help and ideas) can be found here:

newspapers day 1

Literacy:  Our focus for this week will be journalistic writing.  We are approaching the end of Krindlekrax and we will be looking at the end of the story as a stimulus for some newspaper articles.

Maths:  This week we are looking at visualising 3D shapes from 2D drawings.  This will involve looking at nets of shapes.

Here is the spelling link that I showed you in class to help you learn spellings in a fun way.

http://www.kidsspell.com/